Nuclear Safety
Scholarly Publications
A comparative institutional analysis of the Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lessons and policy implications
February 2013
This paper analyzes the causes, responses, and consequences of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident (March 2011) by comparing these with Three Mile Island (March 1979) and Chernobyl (April...
The Fukushima Disaster and Japan's Nuclear Plant Vulnerability in Comparative Perspective
May 2013
We consider the vulnerability of nuclear power plants to a disaster like the one that occurred at Fukushima Daiichi.
North Korean Nuclear Facilities After the Agreed Framework
July 2016
In January 2004, a delegation from Stanford University led by Prof. John W. Lewis and joined by one of the authors, Siegfried S.
Other Publications
President Trump's Asia Inbox
February 2017
Scholars at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies assess the strategic situation in East Asia to be unsettled, unstable, and...
The Peace Train Leaves The Station
March 2018
In a flurry of developments that left experts stunned, the long-stalled Korean peace train has suddenly left the station.
News
U.S.-India pact recognizes reality of nuclear politics
March 2006
The newest member of the nuclear club will also gain a stake in nonproliferation, observes Pantech Fellow and San Jose Mercury News foreign affairs columnist Daniel Sneider.
North Korea surprises world with successful launch of long-range rocket
December 2012
North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket and placed what it says is a satellite into orbit, a move that has provoked worldwide consternation and warnings.
Old Events
Lessons from the Failure of Nuclear Negotiations with North Korea
April 15, 2011
Today nuclear negotiations with North Korea, begun twenty years ago, have returned to their starting point.
Business as Usual: Fukushima in Light of the Great Cold War Plutonium Disasters
May 14, 2012
While Chernobyl, and now Fukushima, are household words, far fewer people have heard of Maiak in the southern Urals and Hanford in eastern Washington State where Soviet and American engineers built...
The Great Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: 5 Years Later
March 10, 2016
It has been five years since the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and associated nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Multimedia
North Korean Nuke, THAAD, and South Korean Debates
March 2017
Video and transcript from Shorenstein APARC's Korea Program seminar on March 3, 2017, titled "North Korean Nuke, THAAD, and South Korean Debates," with Chung-in Moon, the Krause Distinguished Fellow at U.C.
The North Korea Crisis
June 2017
Video and transcript from the joint CISAC/Shorenstein APARC panel discussion, "The North Korea Crisis," on May 30, 2017, with James Person, director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation at the Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Gi-Wook...
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